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...creature this blob, an amoeboid that has taken on a new shape that belies its original form. Defense contractors, businessmen, and the wealthy now mold its front, while minority groups, unions, the poor and others have been squished into the background. Money, bureaucracy, and connections make up its trident...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Gramm-Rudman | 2/11/1986 | See Source »

...Political Action Committee (PAC), originally created to insure the representation of minority views in our democracy, now threaten to engulf the very political machination that created them--the budgetary process. The PAC has become a real-life Washington nightmare of "The Blob," a mass of lobbyists that spills down from Capitol Hill, tearing at the heartland of America. Men, women, children run for cover...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Gramm-Rudman | 2/11/1986 | See Source »

Legislators are often powerless in this three pronged grasp. They need PAC money to run their campaigns and PAC connections to help them with logrolling. The blob's organizational strength pressures congressmen, ever sensitive to popular opinion, into the slimy grasp of its politics. The creature knows its creators' weak spots...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Gramm-Rudman | 2/11/1986 | See Source »

...everyone who was there will remember The Blob...

Author: By Inigo L. Garcia, | Title: Harvard vs. Yale vs. The Blob? | 11/22/1985 | See Source »

...Blob", it is said in East Cambridge, required four years of planning by MIT's Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity...

Author: By Inigo L. Garcia, | Title: Harvard vs. Yale vs. The Blob? | 11/22/1985 | See Source »

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